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Get paid to travel: the best jobs for globetrotters

Can you spot the difference between a cloud and the Northern Lights? Then we might have found the job for you: the Arctic Snow Hotel in Finland is looking to recruit an Aurora Borealis spotter, which some commentators are describing as “the best job in travel”.

The successful candidate will spend long winter nights scanning the skies for the cosmic light show and waking guests when they spot it. According to the hotel, which hasn’t released salary details, applicants must be able to speak English and should be able to tell the difference between a cloud and the Northern Lights (easy enough, surely?).

It’s certainly an enviable job, and here are a few more that might tempt you to change career…